Third Vision: The Man with a Measuring Line

¹And I lifted up my eyes, and I saw a man with a measuring cord in his hand.[#Eze 40:3; Zec 1:16]

²And I said, “Where are you going?”

And he responded, “To measure Jerusalem and to note what is its width and length.”

³Then the angel who was speaking with me went out, and then another angel came out to meet him,[#Zec 1:19]

⁴and said to him, “Run, say to this young man: Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and animals in her.

⁵And I will be like a wall of fire all around her, says the Lord , and I will be as glory in her midst.”[#Isa 4:5; 60:18–19]

Interlude: An Appeal to the Exiles

⁶Up, up, flee from the northern land, says the Lord , for I have spread you abroad like the four winds of heaven, says the Lord .[#Isa 48:20; #Eze 17:21]

⁷Deliver yourself, O Zion, you who live with the daughter of Babylon.[#Isa 52:11]

⁸For thus says the Lord of Hosts: He has sent Me after glory to the nations which plunder you, for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye.[#Dt 32:10; Ps 17:8]

⁹For I will swing My hand against them, and they will become plunder for their servants. Then you will know well that the Lord of Hosts has sent Me.[#Isa 19:16; #Isa 14:2]

¹⁰Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for I am coming and will dwell in your midst, says the Lord .[#Lev 26:12; Zec 8:3]

¹¹And many nations will join themselves with the Lord in that day, and they will be My people. And I will reside in your midst, and you will know that the Lord of Hosts has sent Me to you.

¹²And the Lord will possess Judah as His portion in the holy land, and He will again choose Jerusalem.[#Dt 32:9; #Zec 1:17]

¹³Be still, all flesh before the Lord , for He is stirred from His holy habitation.[#Ps 68:5; Hab 2:20]